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Marilena Zaroulia is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Performing Arts, University of Winchester, UK. Her research focuses on performance and cultural politics in post-1989 Europe. She has published on contemporary European and British theatre; performance, affect and the nation, the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, and utopian performatives in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Philip Hager is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, University of Birmingham, UK. His work examines performance and the politics of space in contemporary Europe. He has published on modern Greek theatre, the performativity of social movements, politics and memory, and the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

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This engaging study examines the issue of crisis in European performance since the collapse of global financial markets in 2008. The book's chapters examine diverse performances of crisis primarily in three cities with a loaded past and present for Europe, as idea and geopolitical reality: London, Athens and Berlin. Presenting a range of work – from the National Theatre's repertoire to alternative forms of theatre-making in 'other' spaces; from the Occupy LSX to cultural performance and 'invisible', quotidian performances – Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance presents new approaches to performance as a form 'in crisis' and as reflecting the in-crisis permutation of the 'inside/outside' dichotomy, fundamental in the conception of Europe and the EU. In doing so, this book makes an argument for performance within and against neoliberal promises; as a monolithic factor implicated in the machinery of capitalism or multiple, emergent bodies of resistance.